I usually post more humorous church videos simply because I like funny videos, but church videos don’t have to be funny to be good. Certainly serious or touching videos can be great for church members and church marketing alike.

This week we have a touching video that is getting a lot of attention lately. It’s a special Father’s day surprise. It’s a great video, though I wish the poster would have mentioned what church this was at. It’s another great example of how a viral video doesn’t have to be a professional video. Read More

I like to post videos on Fridays both as a fun way to end the week, to promote videos created by churches, and to emphasize the way videos can be a great church marketing strategy. Most of the videos I’ve posted have been scripted style videos, like skits, which have been made by Churches or Christian groups to convey a specific message. However, church videos don’t have to fit that format.

Earlier this month I posted a video of a deer that was made from the security camera footage of a church. Back in May I posted a video a family made about the life-saving miracle God performed on their new born child. This week our video is simply a clip either from church service or presentation at a conference. The point is that church videos don’t have to be scripted stories or take hours of production time. Many churches feel that they don’t have the equipment or know how to create a good church video, but these videos illustrate that you don’t have to have a film studio, professional cameras, or even great script writers.

On to this week’s video of a funny story about a little kitten. I found it while reading a post from David Tonen’s blog, navigateyourmarketing.com.

Check out this footage of a deer running wild through a church in North Carolina:

I believe the church needs to reach out to everyone, though maybe we should stop short of our fine forested friends.

This is actually a great example. Colonial Baptist Church had a strange and amusing situation for which the happened to have video. This wasn’t planned. It just happened, but someone saw the opportunity to take a fun story and turn it into a viral video. This video was only posted about a two weeks ago and already has nearly 1500 FB likes on GodTube and nearly 100,000 views on YouTube. The video has been posted on Break.com, OutdoorLife.com and even Bing’s videos. The video has been written about on thousands of websites, including the Huffington Post and several news sites. What great exposure!! It would have been good to include the church’s name at the end of the video, but all in all a great job by the folks at Colonial Baptist.

It’s been a while since I posted a funny church video. Unfortunately, I’ve found it’s pretty hard to find church videos that original, funny, and decently done. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places. Either way, the dry spell is over.

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If you have any funny or inspirational church videos or happen to know a good source of church videos, please post in the comment below.

Kevin Hendricks over at Church Marketing Sucks has a great article about the recent flash mob video from Second Baptist Church, “Dance Your Shoes Off”. He makes some great points what a viral video like this which involved so many people can do, including:

“Such a public event does have the benefit of multiple perspectives. It’s not limited to the official video. Loads of people watching the event can be seen snapping pictures and taking cell phone video. These alternate perspectives show up online, spreading the core idea even further.”

Social media is a revolution. At no other time in history has a message or news about an event or even video of that event been able to be spread to so many people so quickly. Consider the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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